"Turkey should reevaluate its history before even thinking about taking partin an international peace keeping force," the announcement declared.

"The inclusion--by the Security Council--of Turkey within the peace keepingforce to be deployed in southern Lebanon will be an insult to the collectivememory of the Armenian people," affirmed the Lebanon ARF.

The Lebanon Central Committee expressed hope that the Lebanese governmentwill also oppose the deployment of Turkish troops, citing Turkey's historicenmity with many countries and its people and its bloody past, whichresulted in the Armenian Genocide.

As a historical reminder, the announcement highlighted Lebanon's own bloodyhistory with Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, which through systematicpersecution and murder.